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South Australian Orthopaedic Nurses Association (SAON)

4th ANZONA Conference 21st to 23rd October, 2009 at the Stamford Grand Hotel, Glenelg SASAON News

SAON membership numbers are steadily rising with a noticeable surge following our successful Trauma Across the Lifespan Workshop. Approximately 70 participants attended with 20 percent or so from country areas. We were particularly pleased to welcome Sandra from Victoria. There was good support from local trade. Publicity Officer – Larissa Bailey distributed the July Newsletter at the workshop.
Topics covered included: Demand Management in ED: Orthopaedic Conditions, Nursing Management of Orthopaedic Injuries by an Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Pelvic Trauma, Paediatric Trauma by an Orthopaedic NP, Spinal Trauma, Traumatic Wounds: Combined Orthopaedic/Plastics Perspective, Nursing Approach to Traumatic Wounds by Wound Management Nurse Practitioner, Trauma Associated with Sports Injury, Traumatic Ankle Injuries, Psychological Impact of Trauma and The Occupational Physician & Trauma.
Our newly appointed Membership Officer Liz McNeill ran our workshop evaluation via ‘surveymonkey’. Evaluation suggested a good to great level of satisfaction with the workshop overall. We also polled peoples’ reasons for attending the workshop and where they found out about the workshop with 80% of participants wanting to increase knowledge and almost 50% learning about the workshop through a poster. The large country contingent may be attributed to communication via Department of Health email distribution lists.
A privileged few (!) attended the SAON Education meeting on 4th August sponsored by Argosy Hire. Paul McLiesh presented his project on Country XRay Followup: a strategy aimed at following up country patients via xrays taken in the country area then sent to the Royal Adelaide Hospital and reviewed in a ‘virtual’ orthopaedic outpatient clinic. It was a cold wet night that kept the numbers down however the Indian feast supplied by the sponsor soon warmed us up!

Future Meetings
• Look out for SAON committee members attending your chapter’s upcoming conferences particularly Victoria & WA!
• 8th December – Annual Education and Orthopaedic Quiz night

Conference
4th ANZONA Conference Planning is in full swing for October 2009 in Adelaide. Two keynote speakers are confirmed. The sponsorship prospectus is near completion. We will be calling for abstracts early 2009 so start thinking and planning YOUR presentation in Adelaide.

Anita Taylor
SAON President
12/8/8

SAON Web page : http://www.saon.org

Victorian Orthopaedic Nurses Association

All meetings held the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6.30pm.
address: 1st floor, ANF House, 540 Elizabeth St, Melbourne.

Dates to be confirmed
22nd August 2008 Annual Aspects of Orthopaedic's Professional Day. Click here for flyer
8th OCT 2008 AGM, International Orthopaedic Nurses Day (event and date to be confirmed) All welcome.
3rd December 2008 Christmas Party

Victorian Chapter Web page : http://www.geocities.com/nursingbones/orthopaedic.html

Orthopaedic Nurses Association of Western Australia (ONA/WA)

All meetings held on the second Tuesday of the month at 5pm. Venue:
The Boardroom (Level 1)
Clinical Training Education Centre
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Carpark entrance No 2, University of WA
Hackett Drive, CrawleyThe ONA/WA has been enjoying a busy but successful year so far. The March AGM welcomed in a new committee with good representation from several hospitals in both the public and private sectors and is lead by the president Wendy Duperouzel. The AGM was followed by a Plastering Demonstration by Sheryl Thyne from Royal Perth Hospital.

A “Simply Shoulders” study day was held on 26 March 2008 at St John of God Subiaco. There were 91 attendees from both metropolitan and country hospitals. Topics for the day included:
• Review of shoulder anatomy and physiology;
• Regional anaesthesia;
• Neurovascular assessment of upper limbs;
• Sports injuries;
• Brachial plexus injuries;
• Slings; and
• A live theatre link up to watch Peter Campbell (Orthopaedic Surgeon) perform an Acromioplasty
The most popular session was Anaesthetist Dr Rob Storer’s discussion of regional anaesthesia which was both very humorous and informative.
The attendees provided helpful suggestions on topics for future study days which the committee will be working to implement.
We have held three study days over the last 12 months and the money raised has been used to set up a fund for our members to apply to attend conferences (eg. ANZONA Conference in Rotorua) and also to support study in Post Graduate Clinical Programs in Orthopaedics.
In May we held an evening education session on “Tales from the State Major Trauma Unit” presented by Sheryl Jonescu, Trauma Case Manager, Royal Perth Hospital. Our evening education sessions are held four times a year.
On 22nd and 23rd August 2008 we are holding our 5th State Orthopaedic Conference – “Articulate Align, Unite – Taking Orthopaedics into the Future”. Our conference will be held in conjunction with the AOA/WA’s Annual Scientific Meeting. The highlights will include a session on “The Orthopaedic Patient in 10 and 20 Years Time” presented by Gavin Clark, Orthopaedic Consultant, and “Development In Emergency Medicine” by Terry Jongen, Emergency Medicine Nurse Practitioner.

Wendy Duperouzel
President
Orthopaedic Nurses Association/WA

August 22nd and 23rd 2008 ONA/WA 5th State Conference (in conjunction with AOA/WA) - University Club, University of WA, Perth Click here for flyer

November 2008 - Lower Limb Trauma Study Day - date to be advised
ONA/WA Web page: http://www.ona.asn.au

Queensland Orthopaedic Nurses

Queensland Orthopaedic Nurses Interest Group News

Q.O.N.S.I.G. held a 2 day conference on the Gold Coast, Queensland in March titled Fractured Progressive Orthopaedic Practice (P.O.P.) with delegate numbers over 100.
Q.O.N.S.I.G. committee continues to provide education sessions in the form of a half day workshop. The last workshop was held in March and the next is scheduled for July. Each committee member organises and runs the workshop and is held where that committee member works. These workshops are sponsored by that hospital providing morning tea and or lunch. Guest speakers include doctors, allied health and nurses. These workshops provide ongoing networking between all staff and committee members, which allows us to provide specific educational needs to our members.

Sharan Ford
Secretary
Q.O.N.S.I.G

Queensland Website: http://www.qonsig.org

New South Wales Orthopaedic Nurses

Stay tuned

NSW Website: http://www.aona.com.au

New Zealand Orthopaedic Nurses

Workshop 26th July 2008. Click here for flyer

NZONA have been very busy over the past few months. Our membership numbers are steadily growing with a motivated group of South Islanders drumming up support. The South Island Regional Group has held its first planning meeting and arranging to have their first education meeting in October.

Our regular Northern Regional education meetings continue with the most recent held in Auckland on the 26th of July. This Spinal Seminar included revision of the anatomy and physiology of the spine, an over view of spinal injury treatment, the management of the spinal patient from the emergency room to the ward and a practical session. As usual the seminar was follow by a NZONA meeting with the members from the South Island flying up to attend.The education part of the day was great it was however a huge challenge to get there with weather warnings, gale force winds and flooding for the most part of the North Island. So we all were focused on just getting home that day and were not able to have our usual lunch catch up.

Currently the Constitution is being updated, the changes will be circulated soon for consultation with the aim to have this finalised at the November AGM, which will follow the education morning that is planned for the 29th of November in Rotorua. The topic for the morning is metabolic bone disorders and will cover things like oesteoporosis, pagets, gout, hyper and hypo parathyroidism.
All welcome check out our web page for details www.nzona.org.The bi-monthly news letter that is produced by our Promotions Officer Lynley Papadopoulas is also available from this web page.

Teena Robinson
President NZONA

Click here for details of the Regional Study Morning

NZ Website: http://www.nzona.org

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